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Zack Polanski: a useful idiot for Islamism

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Show Notes

In this spiked deep dive, Tom Slater talks to Fraser Myers about the threats to Zack Polanski’s leadership of the Green Party, the left’s ‘grand bargain’ with Islamic sectarians, the anti-Semitism behind the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, and the dark history of the environmental movement.

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